4:05 PM,
Jul. 24, 2014

Dwayne Johnson stars in the title role in 'Hercules.' The movie is at Tinseltown USA and Louisiana Boardwalk.

Written by

Bryan Alexander
USA TODAY

There is no place to hide on a movie screen when playing the Greek icon Hercules. The first superhero had a demigod body in a time of skimpy clothing.

That's why Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, 42, would perform frequent detailed inspections to make sure he was showing the right stuff everywhere when filming Hercules last year in Budapest.

"Every 72 hours I would strip down to my underwear and get someone on the team to take 360-degree pictures of my entire body. Then I would send the pictures to my (training) coach," says Johnson. "It was an incredible process, the constant management of the visual." ...